He was mayor of Bosaso from 2015 to 2018,[1] the commercial capital and biggest of the autonomous Puntland region in northeastern Somalia, after the city's District Council unanimously voted for him in 2014.
[3] On August 10, 2016, Mayor Yasin Mire underlined a sisterhood relationship agreement with Mayor Betsy Hodges of Minneapolis USA, the relationship was originally approved by Minneapolis city council and later embraced by Bosaso local council.
Minneapolis partnered with Bosaso, Somalia, in 2014 to strengthen relationships abroad and with the large Somali population there in Minnesota.
[4][5][6] The sister-city signing ceremony took place on August 10, 2016, at Minneapolis City Hall.
He attended university in Malaysia where he earned a degree in social science.